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Re: Broadcast Ping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Kaiser)
Sat May 25 02:49:59 1996
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:58:35 +0200
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Oliver Kaiser <kaiser@itm.mw.tu-muenchen.de>
At 09:51 23.05.1996 -0500, Tony Fortenberry wrote:
>I have recently recompiled my kernel & since then I can't ping the broadcast
>address for a subnet. Can someone tell me which parameter I modified that has
>removed this capability. This procedure comes in handy when I'm trying to
>diagnose a network problem.
>
>This is the response I get when I try a broadcast ping:
>
>ping: sendto: Permission denied
>ping: wrote 147.62.96.255 64 chars, ret=-1
>
>This is while I'm root.
This behavior changed a long time ago. I remember a working broadcast ping
in the old days of SLS distribution. Someone pointed out that this behavior
can be changed by a socket parameter. Linux-net, is this right?
Oliver
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